Intentional Community at Finca Sagrada

Growing Together in Sacred Purpose

Finca Sagrada is a community with a collective commitment to constant growth, creation, and change.

Our intentional community thrives on the belief that each person brings unique gifts to our shared journey. Currently home to 7 adult members and 6 children, our land holds space for additional kindred spirits who feel called to this way of life.

Joining Our Community

We welcome those drawn to explore community living at Finca Sagrada. Our journey together begins with a visit—allowing you to experience the rhythms, responsibilities, and joys of our daily life. For those feeling a deeper connection, we invite an extended stay of a few months, giving both you and the community time to discover if there’s genuine alignment.

This gradual approach honors the significance of joining an intentional community—a decision that should emerge naturally rather than be rushed.

Our Guiding Principles

Passion as Purpose: We believe that following our heart’s passion represents our greatest contribution to the world. Community members are encouraged to develop their unique gifts and interests.

Land as Teacher: We recognize that the land itself calls the people meant to steward it. Those attracted to Finca Sagrada often discover they’re being invited to participate in something larger than themselves.

Sacred Reciprocity: Our relationship with the land, each other, and the surrounding communities is based on mutual giving and respect.

Child-Centered Vision: Creating a better world for future generations guides our decisions and priorities.

Founders of Finca Sagrada

Our founders are no longer physically at Finca Sagrada but we can still feel their presence all around us. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. For over a decade, Walter and Susan poured out their hearts and souls into this land and Finca Sagrada is what it is today because of them.

Walter Moora

Walter was born in the jungles of Borneo in 1949 of Dutch parents. As a youth, his family lived in Malaysia and England and finally, when he was 9, in New Zealand. By the end of high school, he knew he wanted to be a farmer and began his life’s path. Walter soon realized that conventional farming fought nature instead of working with her so he left New Zealand in 1972 to learn biodynamic farming, which works intimately with nature. Most of his adult life he lived in the U.S. working on Camphill community farms or his own farms. Over the years, to add value to his farm products, he made Gouda cheese, European sourdough breads, grew vegetables and helped launch Seven Stars Yogurt. For many years he was on the Demeter Certification Board that certifies biodynamic farms.

In 2001 he met and married Susan Davis and they have been weaving their work together ever since. Through Susan’s Capital Missions Company, they co-created a successful KINS Innovation Network called Kindred Spirits. This network invited social investors and philanthropists to visit their farm to learn how non-farmers can steward the Earth.

In 2007, they began living in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, for a substantial part of the year and Founded Finca Sagrada. Here Walter wrote his book A Farmer’s Love, and he and Susan started giving workshops on their beautiful farm in the mountains of Ecuador.

Two passions guide Walter’s life. One is to grow the healthiest food possible by farming Biodynamically, thus treating the Earth with respect and love. The second is to help non-farmers learn the importance of nutrition in food, learn how everyone can help steward the Earth and learn how to connect to the spirituality of the Earth.

Susan Davis Moora

(September 1941-December 2024)

Susan Davis Moora was the innovator of KINS Innovation Networks, who helps people manifest their life missions collaboratively with others. She left a Division Administrator position for Harris Bank’s Personal Trust Group after nine years to start Capital Missions Company (CMC) in June of 1990. CMC created an innovation method highly effective in social investing and other niches of sustainability using principles of generosity and trust.
Susan used these experiences in business and finance to create this unique networking innovation method now proven successful with 35 networks created over a 35-year period. This method, called KINS Innovation Networks, uses nature as a model for innovation following a simple 7-step method anchored by 30 people from 30 diverse constituencies.
In 2007, Susan took a health-required 3-year sabbatical in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where she and Walter, used KINS and funding from FlowFunding.org to model how a town’s leaders could help take their town green and resilient. Susan also wrote a book, The Trojan Horse of Love, to teach others how to start KINS networks through telling the KINS stories. Susan gifts this book from her heart rather than selling it and it has been downloaded 16,600 times.

After a traumatic attack and beating by armed commandos in their home in 2009, Susan and Walter decided to become global nomads for a year, traveling pro bono to U.S. towns to teach KINS and biodynamic farming to help the towns go green, sharing the Vilcabamba story.

Members of Finca Sagrada

Angela Burton

Angela Burton is a free-spirited Canadian with a heart as vast as the Rockies. After 45 years in British Columbia, she’s now rooted in Ecuador’s Andes, thriving in the lush, spiritual community of Finca Sagrada.

A dedicated advocate for sustainability, Angela’s work with World Tree continues to foster a vision of regenerative prosperity—”growing trees for the planet, people, and prosperity.” Her passion lies in creating a world where nature and humanity flourish in harmony.

Beyond business, Angela’s life is a testament to love, generosity, and nurturing—whether raising her own children, fostering others, or uplifting communities. Now, in Ecuador, she sows seeds of hope, building a future where compassion and connection grow.

Jon Love

Jon has had a rich life exploring the mystery of being alive at this time of a great turning. His explorations have taken him into the realms of personal, organizational and social transformation. He’s helped governments facing the unprecedented difficulties brought on by HIV/AIDS, companies recovering from devastating strikes and lockouts, product development teams hopelessly behind in seizing the opportunity to bring breakthrough products to market, and people with visions bigger than they know how to achieve. Now he is devoted to serve the emergence of an even more loving, harmonious and beautiful way of life for humans in sacred union with each other and Mother Earth.

Satya Love

Satya, a dreamer, mother, sister, life long learner, wayshower, catalyst and steward of earth chooses a commitment to the flourishing of all life sprinkled with a good dose of humility, open heart and love.

Daily rise and shine with a mission to ignite magnetic resonance, catalyzing exponential impact, for even more unity consciousness of divine love fuels a life that stays in the river, letting go of the sides, learning to ask for help, recognize help, receive help and be grateful. 

Keeping life fun is a must! Self-talk ” Thank-you, I am That, I am , it is done, center up buttercup, Be Love anyway” are a choice, chosen. 

Oh ya, also traveling in and through me is a rich history of community building, reading the energy fields, creating and managing organizations, and initiatives as per instructions from the Universe. Recent engagement is with Pachamama Alliance and Finca Sagrada. 

Play with children, plant communing, prayer, singing as one with divine love, and the merge of dream, inner and outer to a simple way of Being are her current soul adventures.

The Thompsons

We are the Thompson family – Nick, Mel, Walter, Raina, Penny and June.  Originally from Canada, we have experience homesteading our own farm and producing the majority of our food from the land and animals we care for.  When not cultivating on the farm, or learning about the many varieties of plants and animals, we spend our time creating through art, legos, puzzles, games and sitting down together with a good book.

Our philosophy in life is to connect with intention wherever possible, that learning and living are one and the same and to try and have a ridiculously good time creating our best life possible. We have a deep respect for Mother Earth and all that she provides and are constantly seeking ways that we can continue to nurture her.

The Trews

We moved to Ecuador at the end of 2024 from San Antonio, Texas, USA. John studied business in Spain and Hong Kong and is a retired Air Force veteran and regenerative farmer. Lexi owned a boutique photography business for over 10 years and is passionate about the fine arts. Here at Finca Sagrada, we farm, play, and manage the website and content creation. 

We have two children, Grace (4) and Theo (1.5) and they are the light of our lives. As a family, we are committed constantly working to be our best selves and in greatest service to the world. Our mission is to give back to families and children by helping pave the way for them to find deeper connection, intention and more joyful living.